John Cain

John Cain is a skilled hardware/firmware test engineer at SmartSense by Digi, specializing in writing automation software for firmware test cases on embedded systems and utilizing electronic lab equipment for hardware testing. As a graduate research assistant at Fairfield University, John focuses on autonomous flight and GPS-denied localization, contributing to a thesis on an alternative aerial positioning system. Prior experience includes internships at NASA, where John participated in spacecraft magnetometer calibration and contributed to the Goddard Space Flight Center's ITCD Mission Cloud Platform, along with a software engineering internship at Forbes emphasizing natural language generation. John holds a Master of Science in Electrical and Computer Engineering and a Bachelor's degree in Computer Science with a Mathematics minor from Fairfield University, alongside a high school diploma from Pentucket Regional Sr High School.